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September 14, 2007
Septentrio opens California office to manage North American operations

Septentrio, a European developer of GNSS receivers for industrial applications, has opened a business development office in southern California, and announced the appointment…

By Inside GNSS


September 14, 2007
Trimble elects new leadership after death of chairman

Trimble’s board of directors has elected new leadership following the death of chairman Robert S. Cooper. Trimble’s new chairman, Ulf J. Johansson, has…

By Inside GNSS


September 12, 2007
ICG sets up new Providers Forum to pursue compatibility among GNSS systems, augmentation systems

Operators of the world’s four GNSS systems and regional augmentation systems have laid the foundation for a multilateral environment in which to discuss…

By Inside GNSS


September 9, 2007
It’s MBOC for common Galileo-GPS civil signal

The United States and the European Union (EU) have agreed to use the multiplexed binary offset carrier (MBOC) for a common GPS-Galileo signal…

By Inside GNSS


September 9, 2007
Proton launch failure raises questions about timeline for completing GLONASS constellation

The September 6 crash of a Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a Japanese telecommunications satellite (JCSAT 11) has injected an element of uncertainty into…

By Inside GNSS


September 6, 2007
Christopher K. Wilson

Wilson is a leading advocate of positioning and mapping technologies in support of vehicle safety. He was one of the leaders of the…

By Inside GNSS


September 6, 2007
Jörn Tjaden

Jörn Tjaden heads the programmatic office for the Human Space Flight Directorate of the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk,…

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September 6, 2007
Thomas Stansell, Jr.

Tom Stansell heads Stansell Consulting, which he founded in 1999. Previously he was a Vice President of Leica Geosystems involved in technology development…

By Inside GNSS


September 6, 2007
Bradford Parkinson

 May 23, 2010, Los Angeles Times interview

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September 6, 2007
Sang Jeong Lee

Since 1988, Sang Jeong Lee has been a professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Chungnam National University, where his research activities…

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September 6, 2007
Sergio Greco

Sergio Greco is vice-president and general manager of the Navigation and Integrated Communications Business Unit at Thales Alenia Space in Rome. He has…

By Inside GNSS


September 6, 2007
Marco Falcone

Marco Falcone is system engineering manager for the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Galileo Project Office in Noordwijk (The Netherlands). He received…

By Inside GNSS


September 6, 2007
Pascal Campagne

Currently the CEO, Pascal Campagne has served since 2001 as strategic director of France Developpement Conseil SA, a satellite navigation consulting and engineering…

By Inside GNSS


September 5, 2007
Glen Gibbons

 Glen Gibbons is the founding editor of Inside GNSS. He is an internationally-known expert and commentator on the development, policies and programs of…

By Inside GNSS


September 1, 2007
The MBOC Modulation

As emphasized in the European Commission (EC) “white paper” on European transport policy for 2010, the European Union (EU) needs an independent satellite navigation system. Galileo is Europe’s contribution to the global navigation satellite system of systems (GNSS) and has committed itself from the very beginning to developing a signal plan that would provide sufficient independence from GPS, while also being compatible and interoperable with it.

By Inside GNSS


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